Wet snow falls from a pine branch

Wet Snow Falls From a Pine Branch

Piece description from the artist

I was coming down the mountain on a day when it snowed after a few weeks of what looked like summer was on its way. A branch sprung up from the release of the heavy snow, and that moment caught me. It would be the inspiration for a new painting series.

Finding and remodeling a new studio delayed my work. By the time I was ready to paint, summer was on its way, and I was unclear how I was going to connect with that moment again. I was driving down Old Pecos trail, looking at the parched foothills, seeing the dead trees and cleared spaces. I thought about the feeling of drought and how closely it felt like economic recession, I thought about my friends and the struggles that each of us encounters. I wished for it to rain physically and metaphorically — and decided I would make this painting even if it was hot and dry.

By chance, and with good fortune, when I started the painting, and while working on it, torrential rains came down in Santa Fe, and the mountains were covered in a blanket of snow. “Wet Snow Falls From a Pine Branch”. The title has 7 syllables, like the central line in a Haiku. I often think of my paintings as Haiku scenarios.

This is a TurningArt exclusive limited edition print available in editions of 100.

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About Willy Richardson

Santa Fe, NM

Willy Richardson lived and worked in New York City for a decade, where he immersed himself in the international art scene, earning his M.F.A. in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000.

In 2011 Richardson's work was included in “70 Years of Abstract Painting” at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York, which assembled works by modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock. In 2012 he exhibited a body of watercolors at Phillips auction house in New York. Richardson's work and vision was featured on the PBS weekly arts series ¡COLORES!. He was honored to be one of the eight SITE Santa Fe SPREAD finalists in 2014. He exhibits his paintings nationally and his work is found in prestigious collections including the Albuquerque Museum.

Richard Levy Gallery wrote: “Richardson stretches vertical bands of color so intense across each canvas that they seem to crackle like neon. Gripping the viewer, a humming field suspends the sensation of time. He has described his act of painting as a sort of meditation, a give-and-take with gravity and the universal laws that determine our experience of the physical world.”

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